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New Haven Prison Reentry Initiative
Sectors Public Safety Neighborhoods Downtown Street 165 Church Street City New Haven Zip 06510 Website http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Mayor/prisonreentry.asp Resources File:CT Corrections Parole Assessment BlumShapiro July2010.pdf File:Ex Offenders Labor Market CEPR Nov2010.pdf File:NewHaven Prison Reentry Sept2010Guide.pdf File:NewHaven SOW Evaluation Report 6-2009.pdf File:NewHaven SOW Quantitative Evaluation 2009.pdf

Contents 1 New Haven Reentry Roundtable / Prison Reentry Initiative 1.1 Current and Recent Announcements 1.2 City Resources and How to Get Involved 1.3 Related National and Statewide Resources 1.4 News Articles About the New Haven Reentry Roundtable / Prison Reentry Initiative

New Haven Reentry Roundtable / Prison Reentry Initiative

Launched in 2008, the New Haven Prison Reentry Initiative works with community partners, state agencies and other reentry stakeholders to support the reintegration of formerly incarcerated residents into the New Haven community. The initiative can help individuals:

• Get in touch with prisoner reentry services in the New Haven community
• Look for a job
• Get IDs, such as birth certificate or Elm City Resident Card
• Find out about New Haven’s Ban the Box initiative
• Learn how to apply for a pardon
• Restore voting rights
• And more!

Current and Recent Announcements

• Legislative Breakfast, Jan 27 2011 with the Reentry Roundtables from around CT was postponed due to the weather. To reschedule this, on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, organizers are planning a half-day mini conference at Central Connecticut State University on reentry issues. More details will be forthcoming as plans develop, but for now please "save the date" for March 23 at CCSU!
• Liman Public Interest Law Project Colloquium, March 3 and 4, 2011. Mar 4 program includes lunchtime roundtable on "Criminal Justice: Entry to Reentry" at noon, followed by a 1:30pm panel on "Governing the Police and Policing Reentry" featuring Prof. Jeff Selbin of the Yale Law School's Reentry Clinic as well as Victor Bolden, Corp Counsel for the City of New Haven. The following panel, at 3:15pm on "Correcting Corrections," will feature Mike Lawlor, the new Undersecretary for Criminal Justice Policy & Planning at CT's OPM. Registration free and open until Feb. 21; see the link at the bottom of http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/12412.htm
• “Gerrymandering” Documentary, Wed. Nov. 17, 2010 at 4pm, Yale Law School (127 Wall Street), Room 129. See http://www.gerrymanderingmovie.com/
• Fair Haven Community Transition Team Resource Fair, 11am to 3pm, Wed. Nov. 17, 2010 at Fair Haven Substation (295 Blatchley Ave.)
• New Haven Correctional Center Pre-Release Resource Fair, 9am Tues. Nov. 30, 2010 (Contact Deputy Warden Karl Lewis at karl.lewis@po.state.ct.us if your organization would like to participate)

City Resources and How to Get Involved

Additional resources may be found on the city's website, at http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Mayor/prisonreentry.asp. Meetings are held every month - contact the group to get involved!

The New Haven Reentry Resource Guide, Updated in September 2010, may be downloaded as a PDF file by clicking on the link in the "Resources" section in the box above, or by clicking here.

Related National and Statewide Resources

Please see our Topic Page on Prison Reentry and Prison Policy for a collection of regional and national organizations and reports on this subject.

News Articles About the New Haven Reentry Roundtable / Prison Reentry Initiative

1. New Haven Independent story profiling one of the participants in the Housing Authority of New Haven's pilot program for individuals with criminal convictions.  The article can be found at: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/joe_lands_a_home/

2. "Housing, jobs key to re-entry, panel says." (NH Register, 11/18/2010) http://newhavenregister.com/articles/2010/11/17/news/doc4ce36082cc830222359697.txt "The New Haven Re-entry Roundtable Tuesday set employment and housing needs of ex-offenders as top priorities for 2011, just as new data shows the U.S. economy loses $57 billion to $65 billion per year while ex-offenders struggle to find work."

3. "Conviction" (Yale Daily News, 2/4/2011) http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/feb/04/conviction/ Article about people involved in the New Haven Reentry Roundtable program.